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Not who you're looking for? Others named Rowland Hill: English educational, social and postal reformer (1795-1879) · English merchant and Lord Mayor of London;,(1495-1561) · British preacher; (1744-1833)
“I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.”
“Unless you live in Christ, you are dead to God.”
“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”
“But I am unable to reach the lofty theme; — yet I do not think that the smallest fish that swims in the boundless ocean ever complains of the immeasurable vastness of the deep. So it is with me, I can plunge with my puny capacity, into a subject, the immensity of which I shall never be able fully to comprehend.”
“I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.”
“Conformity to the world has in all ages proved the ruin of the church. It is utterly impossible to live in nearness to God, and in friendship with the world.”
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Rowland Wright Davenport Hill (5 September 1851 – 29 August 1912) was an English cricketer active in 1871 who played for Lancashire. He was born in Hajepoor, India and died in Sydney. He appeared in one first-class match as a righthanded batsman, scoring eight runs with a highest score of 5 and held one catch. He changed his name to Rowland Wright Davenport-Hill in 1877.